Fry Up Food Art Furniture Cakes With This Innovative Pan

Sapore dei Mobili food art furniture cakes
Sapore dei Mobili: Furniture cakes

Two designers have engineered a waffle iron that fries up food art and makes miniature edible tables and chairs. They call their invention, Sapore dei Mobili, which is Italian for “flavor of furniture”.

Sapore dei Mobili food art furniture cakes
Sapore dei Mobili: Furniture cakes

Ryosuke Fukusada and Rui Pereira came from Japan and Portugal (respectively) to Italy to become product designers. After a chance meeting in Milan, the two fused their cultural backgrounds and Sapore dei Mobili was born.

Sapore dei Mobili food art furniture cakes
Sapore dei Mobili: Furniture cakes

Their creation mixes traditional Japanese small cakes (“baby castella”) with a Portugese egg-based pastry (“ovos moles”). It’s super sweet and whimsical; the perfect antidote to last week’s now-infamous “racist cake“.

Sapore dei Mobili
Sapore dei Mobili: Furniture frying pans

Certainly, Sapore dei Mobili is fun, but it’s not without some social commentary. The project was inspired by the “velocity” of the contemporary furniture industry and how “consumers are unable to digest the huge amount of products launched every year”. I can dig that. Fukusada and Pereira’s furniture pan is a “new way of experiencing furniture” and they declare, “playing with food is now allowed.” I concur! I WANT.

Sapore dei Mobili
Ryosuke Fukusada and Rui Pereira

This pan would work nicely to furnish the new homestead you cook up in your state-shaped skillet, don’t you think? Click through for a look back at how Fukusada and Pereira created the furniture pans. Hopefully, they’ll manufacture them soon!

Sapore dei Mobili: work in progress, polyurethane foam
Sapore dei Mobili: work in progress, polyurethane foam
Sapore dei Mobili: work in progress, polyurethane foam
Sapore dei Mobili: work in progress, polyurethane foam
Sapore dei Mobili: work in progress, 3D-printed mold
Sapore dei Mobili: work in progress, 3D-printed mold
Sapore dei Mobili: work in progress, 3D-printed mold
Sapore dei Mobili: work in progress, 3D-printed mold
Sapore dei Mobili: work in progress, cast aluminum pan
Sapore dei Mobili: work in progress, cast aluminum pan
Sapore dei Mobili: work in progress, cast aluminum pan
Sapore dei Mobili: work in progress, cast aluminum pan
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